Google NASA Partnership Announced

eldavojohn writes "Google & NASA announced their partnership today with many benefits. The director of a NASA site said 'Just a few examples are new sensors and materials from collaborations on bio-info-nano convergence, improved analysis of engineering problems, as well as Earth, life and space science discoveries from supercomputing and data mining, and bringing entrepreneurs into the space program.'" Update 23:51 by SM As pointed out by so many readers the GoogleNASA site originally linked was completely bogus.

Gah!

[Karganeth (1017580)]

Apparantly, taking over Earth isn't enough for Google...

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[Ngarrang (1023425)]

I, for one, welcome our new search engine overlord.

Now I know...

[Stanistani (808333)]

The next flag on the moon will be Blue, Red, Yellow, and Green.

Re:Now I know...

[spellraiser (764337)]

Yeah, it's true. They were offering jobs [google.com] on the Moon as early as April 1, 2004!

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[ZiakII (829432)]

I may be missing the joke... is this legit? I don't expect to be launched to the moon but is there something to this? Does anyone know? Am I about to be come the laughing stock of /.? Dag, better post AC... too scared of /back effect

Yes its a joke they had that as an April Fool's Joke.......

Well... Duh!

[smbarbour (893880)]

How else will they get their employees to the Google Copernicus Center [google.com]?!

They've got a lot of work to do though if they plan to open it in late spring, 2007.

PHISHING ATTEMPT, TAKE THAT DAMN LINK DOWN

[by Anonymous Coward]

GoogleNasa is NOT an official Google site, and is just phishing for Google account information. What the fuck, Slashdot - do you EVER look at these links? Such incompetence...

Mod parent up!

[FhnuZoag (875558)]

Checking whois leads to Chris C Kemp: (Notice website similarities)

http://www.chrisckemp.com/ [chrisckemp.com]

This guy doesn't seem to have any connections to google or NASA, true, though I don't know if phishing is an accurate accusation.

But be careful, folks.

Re:Mod parent up!

[nametaken (610866)]

Notice both chrisckemp.com and the Google/Nasa site are running DotNetNuke?

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[smbarbour (893880)]

A: The site is only open to EMPLOYEES of Google and NASA. (Who would know better if it were a phishing attempt)
B: The partnership was announced by NASA in September of 2005.

Not only is this old news, but the registered "owner" of the site is a well-respected member of the tech community.

Update

[smbarbour (893880)]

NASA's Dec 2006 Press Release [nasa.gov]

Excerpt of interest (as was shown under other links found within the other threads):

"NASA has collected and processed more information about our planet and universe than any other entity in the history of humanity," said Chris C. Kemp, director of strategic business development at Ames. "Even though this information was collected for the benefit of everyone, and much is in the public domain, the vast majority of this information is scattered and difficult for non-experts to acce

Re:PHISHING ATTEMPT, TAKE THAT DAMN LINK DOWN

[chrisckemp (257820)]

Hi, sorry for the confusion, I am Chris C. Kemp, Director of Business Development at NASA Ames Research Center. I originally created the site as a "neutral ground" for NASA employees and Google employees to collaborate (we're trying to experiment with new ways of doing business). I paid for and set the site up myself which is why it is listed under my name to minimize the "bureaucracy" We were not ready to release/announce the site, and after getting slashdotted, Google requested that we take the site down, which I did.

Land rush is on!!!

[Average_Joe_Sixpack (534373)]

www.gogglenasa.com
www.googelnasa.com
www.nasagoogle.com
www.googlnasa.com

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[Turn-X Alphonse (789240)]

you missed Nasgel.com but maybe that's a little too "great things become twisted and evil" like.

Re:Land rush is on!!!

[aelbric (145391)]

I guess NasGool.com is over the top then?

if i had google stock

[stoolpigeon (454276)]

i think i'd be pretty happy about this.

Well that's just funny...

[pclminion (145572)]

A friend who works at Google took me on a tour of a few of their buildings a little over a year ago. It was the weekend and hardly anybody was there, but I did remember noticing a big whiteboard (Google has thousands of whiteboards, which seem to be the primary medium for communication and development of ideas) with the headline "Google And NASA in 2007" at the top. I remember thinking at the time how odd that seemed. But it looks like out of all the zany ideas at Google this was one that actually survived for over a year and came to fruition.

The site is running on IIS 6.0

[ranperry (757673)]

Google? IIS 6.0? Helllooooo?

Re:The site is running on IIS 6.0

[MyLongNickName (822545)]

You misread. It is ISS 6.0. However, it is still in beta. Google corporate culture taking over already.

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[CaymanIslandCarpedie (868408)]

Looks like they are running DotNetNuke [dotnetnuke.com]. If you can overlook its use of ASP.NET, it is a great (and open source) little web portal app.

Computronium Cloud ...

[lysdexia (897)]

Slashdot - Space - December 2014

GoogleNASA Announces Dissassembly of Mercury and Venus

GoogleNASA's strategic alliance with FungibleNano has pushed their disassembly of the "useless" innerplanets into a computronium cloud. The "Massively Massive Massive 4D Quantuum Processor Fog" will reportedly use 10 years of spam filtered from gmail users to train an AI to solve large N-Body problems and appreciate fine wine.

Hey, I recognize that CMS!

[theGreater (596196)]

That's Dot Net Nuke, with an altered default blue theme. Good enough for Google, good enough for NASA, good enough for me.

Hey, it's at least mildly ontopic, and it proves I actually FOLLOWED A LINK!

-theGreater.

captcha: outrages

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[Frosty Piss (770223)]

That's Dot Net Nuke, with an altered default blue theme. Good enough for Google, good enough for NASA, good enough for me.

GoogleNasa.com? It's running on Apache, with domain servers at InterMedia.net. The registrant is:

Kemp, Chris [e-mail]

Personal

1942 Westlake Ave

Seattle, WA 98101

US

[phone]

[phone]

Partnership with benefits?

[by Anonymous Coward]

Is that anything like "Friends with benefits"? Because that would be hot in orbit.

Google Earth improvement?

[tarlos25 (1036572)]

Hopefully we'll get decently up-to-date satellite photos for Google Earth now. I'm tired of seeing my town as some vaguely greenish-brown blur.

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[Rob T Firefly (844560)]

Hopefully we'll get decently up-to-date satellite photos for Google Earth now. I'm tired of seeing my town as some vaguely greenish-brown blur.

I'd agree with you, except my town actually is a vaguely greenish-brown blur.

Corporate partner

[dawnzer (981212)]

I think this is a great idea for NASA to take on a corporate partner. Not only does it look promising from a financial viewpoint, but it greatly expands the knowledge base and brainpower from using brainiacs from both the govement and corporate pools that are generally kept separate. I think there are several government agencies that would benefit from a corporate viewpoint.

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[Mr. Hankey (95668)]

NASA has plenty of corporate partners, including several large players in the aerospace industry. Lockheed Martin has a facility right next to Ames. The NASA/Google partnership is old news though, we were joking about GAmes (Google/Ames) maybe a year ago. This is just some guy setting up a website for publicity purposes, which is definitely not NASA-sponsored. There's no responsible official named at the bottom.

Seems perfect to me

[Kuukai (865890)]

Yes, a search company teaming up with an agency that's always losing things! Maybe now they can find that Mars lander, those Moon photos, and what exactly Neil Armstrong said...

Interesting...

[by Anonymous Coward]

But will it ever get out of beta?

budget

[michaelvkim (981938)]

Maybe now NASA will have the budget to do some really cool stuff!

Disappointing

[Anonymous Cowdog (154277)]

I was expecting an announcement about Hubble images. There must be millions of them by now, but there isn't a great way to access them. Sure, NASA announces a new image once in a while; they come out in dribs and drabs. It would be great to see Google's take on Hubble image accessibility.

Nerd Porn

[derrickh (157646)]

To 99.5% of the population, the following sentence is pure gibberish. But for the chosen few, it's like porn and candy all rolled up into one.

"Just a few examples are new sensors and materials from collaborations on bio-info-nano convergence, improved analysis of engineering problems, as well as Earth, life and space science discoveries from supercomputing and data mining, and bringing entrepreneurs into the space program."

D

Beware: probable phishing attempt

[VeryProfessional (805174)]

To me, the site http://googlenasa.com/ [googlenasa.com] seems extremely suspect. It looks like a targeted phishing scam to get the personal details of Google and NASA employees. Slashdot, you owe us better.

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[ajdlinux (913987)]

"NASA has collected and processed more information about our planet and universe than any other entity in the history of humanity," said Chris C. Kemp, director of strategic business development at Ames. "Even though this information was collected for the benefit of everyone, and much is in the public domain, the vast majority of this information is scattered and difficult for non-experts to access and to understand.

So maybe this Chris C Kemp is actually a NASA guy?

Am I missing something?

[jmerelo (216716)]

The news release is one year old [nasa.gov]. And the site is neither registered to NASA or to Google, but to INTERMEDIA.NET [intermedia.net]. It's basically PR, anyways.

The search for ET just got easier

[blueZ3 (744446)]

for NASA. Who knew you could just Google "alien lifeforms"? All that SETI CPU time was wasted

I can hear it now. "They were right.....

[3seas (184403)]

...we never made it to the moon, it was all done on earth, google's earth."

Maybe we can call it the Googleplex.

If only we can find it thru google/nasa earth search engine.

The simple logic question the above is based on is:
What does a web search engine and web based advertising company have in common with NASA?

Seek and ye shall find?

Sweet, Can't wait for Moon Ads!

[WiiVault (1039946)]

Yay now when I'm looking at the moon through the 'ole telescope with the kids I also get the latest deals from Amazon, Ebay, and whoever else uses their ad system.

The New Name

[Cytlid (95255)]

I'm hoping for GASA and not Noogle.

Perfect match

[Fujisawa Sensei (207127)]

Perfect match. Google makes money, NASA spends money.

The chairs will be flying in Redmond today

[QuietLagoon (813062)]

Just wait until Ballmer hears that google has outmaneuvered Microsoft in courting NASA and all its data.

Lofty ideas

[LilGuy (150110)]

I for one welcome our cybernetic space overlords.

Re:Wait...date confusion?

[PerfectSmurf (882935)]

I noticed that too. Seems someone posted the url for a year old announcement instead of the current one http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/dec/HQ_06371_ Ames_Google.html [nasa.gov]

Yep! It's a fake.

[morgan_greywolf (835522)]

Let's see:

1. It's running IIS 6.0.
2. googlenasa.com registered to a Chris Kemp at 1942 Westlake Ave., Seattle, WA 98101
3. The aforementioned address is a high-rise apartment building [google.com].
4. The Web design, as you say, is horrible.

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[morgan_greywolf (835522)]

Oh, yeah, and the site was registered in September 29, 2005

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[ps_inkling (525251)]

Google cache link: cache [google.com]

Cache date is December 1 of 2006. They registered google-nasa.com as well. Mentions Megan Smith and Chris Kemp on front page.

Not fake.

[farker haiku (883529)]

Here's a nasa link [nasa.gov] admitting the disclosure of the joint venture.

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[ben there... (946946)]

Chris Kemp, director of business development, NASA Ames Research Center [nasa.gov]

NASA Ames Research Center is also the location mentioned in the press release on googlenasa.com

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[aristotle-dude (626586)]

That is quite common in companies. They will often use the proper "legal" name for the email address and display the preferred spelling elsewhere.